Louise is home!

Boy, did she yowl at me during the drive home. She doesn't appear to be any the worse for wear from the iodine therapy.

Louise is definitely not a worldly cat. She prefers to be in the house and not leave it if at all possible. She'll take a passing interest in the view from the windows, particularly if there are birds or squirrels in the trees, and she'll peek out into the stairwell when the door is open, but she has no desire to be out in the world. Her world is the house, and she's content with that.

I sometimes wonder what her life was like before she came to live with me. The foster owner said that Louise had been found hanging out with a feral cat colony. Was she dumped or did she get lost? How long was she on her own "out in the wild?" I don't like to think that she had to spend winter outdoors or get drenched in the rain. I've noticed that she's not afraid of thunder or lightening, so she must have been outdoors long enough to get used to it. I once found her sitting on the dining room table staring out the window watching a rather magnificient thunderstorm, and she didn't flinch once.

It's odd that she'd end up with a colony of cats because the foster owner said that she didn't care for other cats. In the foster home, she rarely came down off the shelf, except to eat and use the litter box. She's still a little jumpy and wary of strangers. She seems to get along fine with Hunny now. I've toyed with the idea of getting another cat, though a human, two cats, and a dog in the condo would probably be a bit crowded.

Anyway, she's home, and now all I have to do is flush her litter and keep my distance for two weeks, and then we can go back to a normal routine. RadioCat even gives you a bag of flushable litter and rubber gloves and a plastic scooper. They think of everything.